It is possible: NO more paying for petrol- ever!!!

These things called Telsas have HIT the car market. Some big names are behind this, and the first car produced has VERY impressive performance:

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185kW
0-100kmh in 4 seconds
Drive for days and days on one charge
Heaps cheaper than petrol...

Yes you heard right, its a frikkin electric car and they are taking orders already... and there are more details here

http://www.jalopnik.com/images/2006/...a_preview5.jpg
http://www.jalopnik.com/images/2006/...a_roadster.jpghttp://www.jalopnik.com/images/2006/...a_preview1.jpg

Hey that's Arnie alright....

Have you people in SoCal seen this thing???

http://www.globalautoindex.com/image...orm_5_orig.jpg

how many $100 000s does it cost?

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how many $100 000s does it cost?

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Rumour I heard was about $150kUSD was the cost to buy one of the first 100 that are being made now... I think you would enjoy this site on the subject Rob, its pretty in-depth ;)

Looks like an awesome little car. But you need 3-phase in the garage to power it up. The Li-Ion battery lasts for something like 900,000 cycles- that's over a million kilometres LMAO!

venturi have been making electric performance cars for a number of years now, it all depends on weather it'll catch on or not

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venturi have been making electric performance cars for a number of years now, it all depends on weather it'll catch on or not

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4.5 secs to 100kmh is fast enough to catch me :) Yea, Venturi is interesting too... thanks Nizmainiac

Venturi, isn't that a french mob? I find electric cars more distasteful than petrol or diesel. as we have coal fired power plants in this country. something that the greenies conveniently forget
but we have uranium, but thats bad ummmmmmkay!

ye! little nuclear power plants in our car! way to go

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Venturi, isn't that a french mob? I find electric cars more distasteful than petrol or diesel. as we have coal fired power plants in this country. something that the greenies conveniently forget
but we have uranium, but thats bad ummmmmmkay!

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I'm thinking of installing 65,000 hampsters in my garage and drawing the energy from their little running wheels to charge that battery (when I get one of these). I figure I have a better chance of doing that than waiting for John Howard to understand the need for new energy technology- let alone actually do something about it...

I don't like the Venturi much, it must be the Paris Poseurs look that shits me. Tesla have some serious marketing people involved though. After all, the Terminator has already test-driven it.... :D

might be a business idea for the RSPCA to pursue.

well im not big on french crap anyways. their cheese fkn stinks, wine wif fem bubles is ova priced and ther a packa rude bastards. do ya reckon we might be retro fitting this technoligy in to our cars in 10 years? imagine implemanting this tech into 3rd world countires to operate machinery to do other things like run hospitals etc and farm implements. we could have a big treadmill at guantanamo and let them jihad jerkoffs power the world for few years.